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before he agreed to give his assent to t'- e Noble Viscount's moiion;- he sli . ould thelefore g itr a more distiat - expli\nati4,lo of its ot,;ta. it tie Notile„Viscount txpe 7terl' that the return to be made 'to his tuotion would embrace every change that had Ix:enadopted in every department of the. iNlavy pursuant to the suggestions of the Commis s:nriejs ; where these sugt;estiOns had bet-ti found pr.yeTticable - and of (tie, and wrier,: riot 3 -such 4:for- • inZltion would be endless, and might be shies be at : ! . totaled veith great ineenvertience and detriment to the public service, and therefore should not be pro duced ; but if the "Noble Viscount intended - only - that the Reports already laid on the table be referred . to and examined, there night be . no objection. to , such a motion. But it wauli seem to be the wish . ot the Nt,b!e Viscount -tore-establish the Board Of - Naval .and agaio to rev.ive their labours, • although the Commissioners themselves, 'after hay. itig obtained a much longtr,period for the comple-* -lion of their labours than rhey at first required, and :though they shrun.lc from every.attempt to prolong their commi,sion, from ani4prehension that any 4c. sire to protraa it might appear' to` from some ititerested motive,' yet : it would now appear that a wish. existed trotrievv here - .to have that conamission . resumed, and a system of revision to Cootinue 'out any -end. Such a mode of tfroceeding would only,embarrass and impede, instead of giving more precision faCility to the, ape:rations' of the di tle rent naval. departments, and therefore •he should resiKtheNoble' \risco - 1306 motion, if such was the ,object it had in view. Lord MELVILLE had no other wislt than to give idea to the intentions and 312ggeSi lops -of .the Cott- . missioners, who had more than once declared 'that they never once intended that the- new regulations which they had proposed. should-1 , adopted; and acted upon a final and complete system' ; but that y theshould be partially' and gradually tried, till ex . , pt rierice- should prove their :Tplicability, to.the ge ' neral‘run of bUsiness. To ascertain. this was the sole and distin& object of his motion. • - Lord MOLGUA76 aoilicknot ittimediately say,how far that bbjel could be 'safely .and properly corn-- - • plied vs Hesbould.rriaLe if, honorer, his busi -ness to inquire ; aod for the present he should move: . the previous question. . . Lords' LI v Elt.P.ool. 311 d .H9LLAND offered a - few words respeaing the more eligible tr i ode 'of pro-, • ceedin,g. The previous , qtiestion was then put, 'and carried without a•division, and the House adjourned. qsE OF VOMMOSS, F ED : 9. -Mr. Base, from the Dank= of England., -presented an Account of the Purchases of Stock made b y the Commissioners under the A6t for, Reducing tha Na tional Debt. Mr. ODELL presented a PetitiOn frot4 the Roman Col holies of Limerick.—Laid on the table. Tite.Cni‘NcELLett of the .Ex"CHEili:Ea,.at the stattcl, that his .Majesty had been pleased to give clitticrionS for loylng before the douse Colles • of the . C,peTondence WA:weep . Mr.•Ers.kine 'and 111 r. Canni, g, reloote,to the tqs . pute with America. Sir FR ANGIS BuRngTT stated, that he held it] his bind a Petition Born a nuinerous body of Lis Ccia stittients,. .Tectf;rsof clte City of Weetrninster, preying a Reform in Parliament.--=tte Petition-was btought up, read by the eleric, and afterwards laid oa ;he table. Oct the motion of Mr. PALNELL, the Report, of the Committee on . the Stale OE the IrisbCurie.ucy was ortt. rt(.l to he re-ptic,i.'.-d. • - .On the niotidu .or S;r - Erm'ARD ,certain iettelts from Mr. Wore, of the War Office, to the INdediyal Beard, withl9elesures . t'rem Gerd , rt, . and other. Letters 'frcp - i Mr. Keats, itccess4try to ciucidate the ppiceedings with repect to the-Walt.hk,r.'n Ex"pedil ion, oreered to be laid hetote tI a 1"Uoose.• Mr. Secretary RyttEit.brotigtit up farther Returns o f the "Livings. tif . the Clergy in. Ireland. Laid, on the table. _ •. . ~„ Mr. MANNzi:o gave notice that . he should, 911 Wk - :ones.day next, submit a ptoposition to the Elouse, groundeil.on the Petith.rn which he presentLd, a feet/ cl:tys since, pra)iog that the Petitioners nil ht Wish a Marine Inourance company. • The flousr it, a Connnittee of Ways and Tvieans, Wu Alt Tp CI lovej t , „vo for- granting Loani of ten militqns and a half, and one million and a half, on the issue. of Tl,xchequer Dills. iltport on Monday. 'CAPI PUNISIEVIENTs: Sir S. holm et.v_rose 4o move leave tL bring in a . 130.1 to repeal the Arts relating •to Capital Punish ent. The "Hon. and Learned. Gentleman, .in 'a speech of c'osiderabie length, and of great eloquence, - 611 ed the attention of the House to the necessity whiCh he coneeived exists tor altering some partspf the Criminal Law. There. were two subjetis which ,he obs , rvtel he shpuld' bring under their consiiier, • ation. They r.la:ed to the frequency• of capital punishments (whii.ll he deplored), and, the neces... e,ity, the Policy, and the etlic4cy of transportation to Nett) South Wafos. The: feruter of these sub. jets he would now enter into; the latter he WoUld feserve l(•,;,atiother .oppo4unity. The frequency of capital puiiishmen $ iN: s a sui)jecl well worthy of seri, Ous•inquiry,foir : theie wasiioCuuntryin w Inch afences were liable. to the punishment of death to so great an extent a. in. England, It had lOng been the cause. 'of comp!aint, but to this d:ty remains unaltered. Legisiature had ena4...ted Lams which were theoretical, for, as he would satisfy the (louse, tlyit the ctficas of them were not seen now.. /3v an 4,14. &atute x it v..rts enatted, that iii 4ny person was found in the cdtni any of Gypsies,. and , orivicted, he Should be-executed. ...Judge Hale rrontiOds, that at one Assi4es; not less'ihan en pe s , •we ware executed wider that AB, which had since been_ repealed. Indeed mere: ,was the ilia J r S.: J:lortescue's, chief Justice of England, in th ri:-411.0: Henry. VIII. which steted, thatrno-e persons were executed fir robberies in 'England-in one y at, than in France tyr seven years. If it Should .)e tz-:1 rI) it on an averk ; e not abOve one in six or se, :u suffeied in modern firm's, that was &nee e the .necessity of reptaling tire statutes. In the sangu rein of ,flvnry• VIII. - Lipwards cif 7 , 2, nu were executed. . Suet'. was the rigorous rEtannr in which the tr.rnioal law wits - eriforced.— In • !ter *, , ,;n of blizOetli,• the average of executions N% as not more than 400 - in 'the year. There had nit IL f1n . . 6 .4 - 4 accurate returns since, until the middle of the last century, 'Alien Sir Steger] . Yansop published a list, which noiic;cl, - that (tom •• the year 1749 to - 1756, there vs ere 428 convictions s of this number '3015 w.cre 4Xeetiteo ; the next ssven years 23ti were cc;nvided s and 139 executed trove 1763 to 1770, the convlaisCA!s were 457, of which 233 were exe cuted. If a comparison. were Made in later years, viz. frotn,tBo2 to 180 g, it woeld be.seen, that the w.contions, bad considerably decreased ; for of ,528 convi,:. - ted, only 67 were ost;cuted, making an ate- - rage of I.Bih, compared with the former seven The 4r:twistable and. Learned Gentleman then' humanely noticed the sort of crimes punishable - w ith (leash by the . statutes which he was ?bout to woe to repeal, These were stealing in a dwelling, • in a shop, on wharfs, &c. mere violations of pro- Vert):,- punithable, however,. with the same rigour as the tnwe heinous crime of. murder.. The House would be surprised, wht,n he stated a fact: with to sped to the nonsexecutiOn'of these criminal laws. In the last seven years there had been 101; persons ct-mmittea for trial in London and ALddlesex, s • ehatzed wit{i offences of this description, and 839 for'sicaling inshops, making a total of - 1872 per-. '...sutv; (4 - this number only one had been executed.' • .1 1 .was I,l4lllC,',ejlt. to state only the _stad, to consince the Hoo : e of the instlieacy ot the lawS on•this subs jeti a's -they now stand:: Some of those persons. had not bey: u . prosecuted, others unjustly accused, otheisacquitts:d througb the clemency of ti'e Judges, and Uthei.S through she humanity Of the Jury, who did not., perhaps, pa)/ too scrupulous an attention 'to the . solcomity or their oaths. The yeturns to the Scc4tary of Mate's Oftice'frorn . the counties. inEng . ; land- and VVsles exhibited 'similar, inrtlicacy. - In t 806 the tiniohcr otsunitted for ttial was 34'.0, of Which,tiumb , sr only 'two were executed. In t s iio7 there were 31,8 crsnani4ecl, and of this tiumhet only one -Wtk's executed. In 1808 the,cOrnituttals were . 3735, and, `singsrlar as it might seem, net one Yuffercri the sentence 9f the laws' Taking an aver age, tlisteftire, - ot.the two last years, otily-one,oqt ofri - Int; .it been executed.. not _then re qui,,itt that laws riueil as these, which, these 'statements, .he.had , hewn wete kepngnipt to the • feeliogs of the times -in which -we should be, repealed. CoUld ai.y bsnelits result to society Own, leaving them on the statute books, prevent the commission ,of critnes was his -object, and he, .should move to repeal the Acts Qt. King William, ' Winer anikesit a capital felony to steal privately to • the %slue of ss: The..A.ct of 9.t.teen Anne, winch • inflicts a-similar penalty on Oifenders stealing to the value 0.1405. rime_ cat the Act of George which pros ides los the punishment of those %six; rob ves sels, I,:c.fto t i i;dvalue of 40s. Sit Sarnttel cOntersti ed, that the Certatisty of punishment svriuld operate snore to the prev - ention or criareS 'thati•the out severe penalties-which the Gosc-rnment never Carried. irilo;clfect. Itwas ow Mg to tire - discretion v.estekk in Judges that perhaps the punishment in flicted by laW on ottenderS _ot this description was' not earri:: into ; 10 pieretlt . CrilThSllle . ahould have a vigilant poti,, and . certain puoisinnenis, which would do More to change the morals of society than had or conld be effected from. . the sfatot 'change. which had taken: Ake in the ad- . niinistiaiion- of the Criminal Code. • As an instance thestrtyferens tempers and dispositions :0i jutlges . , Sir Samuel 'stated . a s;;Egilar'tpei.. 'hero persons. v, , erb in the act ofre'sliing 't Ponitry ystd iii Norfolk, one •of them 54siperi, 9111. r wi-13 brought to trial and consieted. Lord I..M.ll;lit',c,ron-& - h,. tried hjin, prhiips from the reptssseilistioils,tts his character., and its beilifs his first . orfoncs, w induced, to forego tie capital punishment, 0.,d lit flicted on .him an hop i-.Crimcot only or a few months-. Tbe acconsphce, a iss had tied into a di4- tant county, learoingjfie sin!id prta;shrriefit.tif. his associate, returned id - Norfli, cctivoring himself tip to in ;:lice,. took' an ..1 vs.as'.convicted. Judge Gould, who . pied him, .Ith%ing trips severer notions of justice, and 'conceiving Proabiy that rigotous lessons wire necessary-to elets.ti persons ;fivin Committing offences against .9-iety, passed , sentence of traasporration on the psisoner, and at . the . Moment that . his associate was leaving inison; the unlortunaie transport wits pieptirizig to be exs iled. Such ss , ,a the difference iti the laic Of the two men as3ociates in a Crime !=—The -llurroaiable• and. Learned . 6entlenitin stated another case s of a i duellist, who was acquitted its eoa'sequetice of the direciibn, of a Learned Judge.; and. also that -Of an Officer, who 'seeing the case repulsed in s the papers ; and haying hart the misfortune to kill a brother Officer its a duel, th a t he might expect ail acquittal. , He -Went over, to Inland, surrendered himself for trial, r was tried; tonna guilty. of.murdess, and hi; Majesty's . leis t h o ught themselves justified in . ordering hitn to Le executed, and executed. he - was accordingly. He Mentioned . these eases to spew the necessity' of apportioning a definite • 'punishment -for crimes, not, leaving it in the breast ..of 'any Judge to Tatty into effect,. or ulna. the puri'.st , ment : isslictsd . . by law; Ktving, expatiated on the mos, I benefits arising from law admiiiisterscl in the way he proposed, and . quoted es-tracts front svritings .of • Dr._ Paley, upon which lie` . (icsminentcd, he concluded with, moving the Repeals 'esses. , Mrs•WYN,onss: and Mr. HERBERT - 01)03ed the motion; • up6tl the ground of the penal laws being equally tniid and just. • The Soucisoit-G's:stuts - z, said, be would give no ,opposition to the' motion, though he objected to some of the prine,ples which seemed to tOiln the basis of the motion. He confessed that he s iewed al innovations on establiilied spterns *itli a jealouk eye ; be did not like opp . .Os`ibt pra6tiCal good by theoretical evil. 'Whatever defects otirkws Libour eci under., they . were to be ascrihey' he natural imperfetti , ;ns" of all human institutions. They could' not 'have Atig,ls to execute the laws, and men must , b 2 - subject to all 'the tcz human hature. 'Again: he said 'he did ,ft t intend to oppose the motion. • Ater a ttiv obiercations from the CiititiCELLOß of the EXCf-LIQUEIt, kto observi-d, that (bit-state ment • of his litrned Friend, Sir S.. libirrAily, ad s 'witted. the leniency with which 'the. law. was exe cnted), a short reply from Sir . SANI6EL,.. and, a speech in f k vour ot the motion, by Lord G..GREN the motion was put; and carried •tvitlio - ut a iliviiion. • The Hen. H..HurcriiNsom gave notice, that on Monday he w6 - 41d • th 01:..; that '4ll O'aprs rela. tire to the inforti:liiion which, 14iS Majesty's nisters retetved .of thr . cat,s of prepaiation of .FIUSVIrig, previous to the e:ti inp-, of, the Extse dition, be laid on the talk, and `;::so that all mop?. or . o..ins Of the fortifications at Antivclp b hild oak: the table. Lord PORCHESTE2t. then moved the ()icier of the sat) , for the Hoose to restive itself into a Corn- . mit tee of nquiry.—:Strangers werr ordered to with.i. draw. [Strangers• were not again admitted. We under itand that C'dmmodote Owen, . General Monttesor, sand Captain 'Paisley, of the Engineers, were .eka mined' by i. tlie Committee.. We did not learn - that any thing of importance came out in: the,course of their examination. 'As House gdjournud. - at Half past-One ta Mond4.l • • . WESTMINSTER. 1114ETIAG. • A numerous body of people acSemblecl . yesterday in PalaCe Yard, Westminster, .according to 'a Re quisition: presented to .the High (AltTxua Moaats, Esq.) for , the purpose of 'considering the subject of Parliamentary Reform., and other mat ters.—After Mr. MORRIS . had briefly stated the purpose of the Meeting, Mr. STuncH carne fotekard, and urged all those arguments which have been heard over and over on the iarne, subject. He referred to the cpnduct of Mr. PITT, `wlzosrl he,represented as hav3ng been at his onset in 'life a *stretitions;adeoente for a Refol - m in Parliament, 'but who, he 'said, had abandoned the cause.'He did.not think proper to reflect that Mr.. Pitt Wai very young at the time, and that ffe might reaStmably and' conscientiously change his sentiments as he advanced in 'life ; no did Mr.Sturcb reflect upon 'the , change of opinion which theneneli'Re, volution, and the principles upon which that dread- . ful. source of misery and confusion was founded', must naturally have I:roduced in the minds of all who love tne British Constitution, •and might lie apprehensive of endangering it bY•rash- attempts at rsionary Reform. Mr, Stureh alluded alio to the A nierican War, and the separation of our Colonies from the Pareet.State, but he urged. nothini; new or:slriking, and Concluded -with , moving a string of Resolutions, intnded . to sheer the necessity of, re form. It SllOUld'be of)served, however, that ih 'the the' course of his harangue, lieeriade use. of the fol.. lotving language—advising the people by one strong ort• to endeavour to I#ake" a stand , and by a strenk twhorttition to our fellow splejetati throughout the hingctoin - , endeavour tO induce tin ., rn . to join in so glorious a canst"—so that the •Reforin ought not to begin in - Parliament;if deemed necessary, but by a getleral . effort of the people, independently o 1 their Representatives. Mr:,Witnraky seconded the motion. A Petition to the,Klein was then read and agreed an4 - it was reselveci that Lord (..;001-RATE and Sir P. BIiiiDETT; eaccompaniect by the High Bailiff,: should present - It to:HlS'lvl&Jesf.' Another Peti . tion to the -Horse of Co - mrnons was, read and agreed to, • to be also preSeeted by the sarueNember.s. Mr. WISIIART folici'wed ; but as tie delivered nearly the tame argtiments, and urged the same topics as" the fore, er Speaker, it is not necessary to report What he said. Teethatiks of 7 the Meeting were then voted to .Leid CC.CHItA aid - Sir F., BOttr,riv, for their ge naraleondtkt in Par :lament, . • _Lord . CotkittAN . then addressed the Meeting. • He o f . enurie sti.f.nily enforced tie nece .: ,sitv of Par li.emitarx Rcturih, and attacked what are . denorni.. rated .7he'Ro,tteir Bokrughs. ,He soon after Nandi ed.otf into,a severe attack tlie.lNlaval Govern., iwnt,Of the wnittry, atid partictilarly on the tnil:dtjr 'court!' lie-nex . i: toadied upon the.subject I Liecn-es gr4tned to nAerch:46ts, which be c - int. tended were. giVen to obta«n llirliarneptary support. Concluded with 'atuniurtcina hes intention to bring the e matters - beture.the House of Commons qtr F. BuitnteeT foslLiW ed his Lordship, anti took the same gem:tat This of aignment ; but he dwelt ..note„ particularly Diu rate subject .of ,Parliamentary Reform, ‘7vithot.ir;. however, throwing any new light on it. He Spoke much, against the introduc ot foreign trpops, into tit•is country ; -so that he would. haVe them, perhaps, Join ti.- at Lutes of Ruo. : NAP;kIiTE, < r Starve Contiuent. He indeed repre,ented . thesettoreign troops as the advanced ' guard of BooleArmr. ,lr 'did not oceur to the Baronet that fuelietr . S Orators ought rather to be considered as the ativanc46.l go 4d• of the Corsican ; and, to 'use his own lanpage, " as the best pioneers which he (BU'ONAPARTB) 'could select." I• • He alSo alluded 'to the restrictiOns on the Press, . and here vie must conceive that the Baronet never reads the Oppositio n Papers, for if he dill, he might be inclined to think' that the Press was not under a . very severe .011401. He concluded with a strong representation of the .'necessity of P.arlamentary ; . Reform • • • I He was followed . by Mr..FINNERTY; whose' speech was C . hiefly intended as a vitoicatioll of the Public Press, against the severe anituadverions' of Mr. WINDHAM. ' A Motichrof Thanks Was Voted"totlie High B !WIT, for hisii . genetal ConduJl and leadines - i to call the Meeting, and soon alier some persons called on Mr..WittoLa. for a sNeeh. He came forward ar,d spoke of the purily, and disiflien t lteqness of 'his" views with great gravity., and compusty course of his•spt•ecn„ .he said, ,that as a report had. . Leon in circulAkin that he had been incited by the Duke. of K.E 7.±lt t6p' oceed against the Duke of Yoiix, tic thought i tlris duly to declare that th-! nei er hld any connection Or inteetcoutse ith the Duke of KENT, ncl lia4 been prompted to the Inquiry merely by 01 - n sense of pvtlic duty ! He promised to per sevc,re in the attenapt to reform all pubiic abu,es, and parii , olarlY the Medical Board. He then retired, and the Meeting concicded.- U N. 10Lcat QUIS D1CZ74.8 FALSUM AUD,EATI LC N DON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1810. • It was our intention to haie gi‘kn the observa tions in the Moniteur, on the .1..(1:4G's Speech, at length, this day, but many of them are of 'a nature not fit to appear in an English. Paper, and the re mainder have no novelty tO . recommend them,. If, h.)wever, we were not very much pros el for room, 7 ,cortitlilii.totild lay before our Refers the coal: Merits which 800. APARTE has Made ,upoii the Er' pedition to the Scheldt, because, with all his tempts. to undervalue the injury:we have done, and ~. • with , ' efforts' to' speak contemptocusl-y of that attack, his ; ungovernable rage ,breaks out in the most ludicrous manner. When Lord Liitorog defeated the. French' at Talavera,. 1 317 P" : ' APARTE told us, that nothing could phase rll n more than that his Lordship should be continued: in his Command ; but this assertion was followed by a series of 'the most scurrilous inveEtives against that Officer. • It we are to believe the Moniteur,on th 3. occasion, the Eipedition to the Scheldt has bee n produetive of the greatest possible advantages t° BUONAi AitT4 ; but why then all this ;age; and a b :" I !! of the British Government ? His . Imperial- -Lila .- s iesty's conduCt - upon these occasion's retnias .us of Sir .Fretful .Plagiary, in the Critic; wb ° ' .when he is writhing in •agony a t t h e comoients made upon his works in the Newspapers, grin' and declares that ‘! he likes them, and t ha t nothing can give him more pleasure:" 11J° observations in the itionittur,' . howevef, w: 111 b° received with due respect by the• patriots f.l l. Ills country, and 'will be sq(toted as iacontestib/e d % • dence against the British Government. . • ' We have-this morning received some moreDatc" and French:Papers: They speak of the north co t of Spain . as being perfectly subdued and iranqui- I, a proof of which they add, that in a little time it be possible.to pass alqng the road between Bayon" and. Madrid, withciut an escort ! ESSEX Et„Ecrtox.=--The numbers yesteruay (ath day) were Fur Mr. lionblgn . 39- - • Mr. Bur g oyne - - - - It was rumoured that Mr. BORGOVI;IE would mak e a gyeat posh yestei clay. He:eat:fed the to 0/11 WW I great porlip, music, colours, chaises, carts, etc' Bud to all appearaoct- with ,ab_ont. fifty Fr:!eltoldergo but could only produce Afeen or sixteen who sverl qualified to vote. His. It ictids seem to be sick a nd tired of the c,,nteft, but as it c :sts hitri not hingh e i s te•ifOlved to proceed: Mr. H.' has new . drnajori t i Of 167 g, tiVe tegret to state that soi'ne further tinpleacan t ilifferencvs have arisen' bZ-t , .eeen the Gd , ernor an d use of Assembly of :Jarna'ca, in co:,sequence‘ of . which the fatter, has bred Ziissol‘ ed. I r appears that. Q/1 the.i3th of Dec,•oiber vte 1-lool>e of Assetobil caine to vartou, resolutions on the state of th,.- in declare t " that a late edict, issued 04 the recortmendation of the Board ltlf Tqcle; interl dicing the i?assing of la sby the Jamaica Legislatur e on the subject of religion:, except terms whit 4 have.been resisted from the first establishment of 0 ;egular,Civil Government, is a violent intriugernen t of the constitutiOn of the Colony; that until the Coitstitution of the Colony be. restored, a:. d the right' Of . she Co!onial Legislature recognised to Propound', clisouss,.and pass, without a SUspenciing 'clause, 04 public laws,, 11Qt incons,tent with -those of B r itain; requitrd for the. internal policy of the Colony, it Iti . r , the bounden duty of this HOuse to exercise 0 1 _ privileges of withholding the Supplies,—that atter th tirst of Mar next, until our grieilhaces be • rem dressed, no money shall be gr'fbted; ,raised, or Or plied within this Island'tor the aufloort of the 1; 10 ' 4 t estblishMent. • se in cormequencc of the above rvsolutions, the F 3 °7 u o l (4 were'sumaloned to attend the Di IV t4l ia . N s c s t b a ir ett, the Governor., on 'tile 14th of Dec' l , ll :l ber. Attex haitugpassed.several-Bills., he address': e the House in a speech,, in which 'he 'said tha tl i a l a House having come to a resolution for granting the s,upplies.to Majesty's :troops it: such terms 0 5 1 t appeared to him it Would be altogether ineowls te „, ri l t willt the dignity , of the Crown to accept them, he it intuff:bent on him to bring -the' Session to an mediate termination, and- to dissblve the . AssefOlY' 'l 7 e,terday noon, as Mr. Abraham Goldsmid s walking, along Lombard-street; with another Geri ae . , man, a bullock coining behind rushed betw ee n tlie rit 7 when Mr.: Goldsmid was, thrown on the pavetnelL„' and wounded in the head. He was taken U. Glob: Insurance Offke, wher e professional Gellke° men W:ere for, and we.are happy Co hear no se. rious consrquence is apprehendel• The other Wa g but .slightly butt. FEB.. ri e 4 the Hercules, Dt lll ' CAN, master, trorn Mali and Gibra:ar, 'bound London; was captured try a Uren . cti privateer 00 We ad insti-int,,antt re-cantuieu 011 tie lith.folloWtog by ci his Majesty's ships Dryad, Cipt. GALLA,i,VILY; 30 1 Eclipse, Capt. Cl:Bl'Ra ; the loaner also re-capture d On the 6th instant tite btig— Du b rei of -LiVerpoo/, CARTER, troni Cadiz, with acargo consisting of I °' hAcco and:rite, ‘vhie , .l ves;'el had been'captured WO, days Previous by: a French pfivateer.; also arriv ed his Majesty's shq:, 4.liyord of 74 guns, Capt. BAvN I Tt.im, from Purtsioontn; spoke a Reachh - frigate ye! terday going up Channel ; also arrived *the Freud ) brig privateer L'Amiuble Josephine, o( 14 goosi and 150 she is a Ver . ) firer, brig, about 207 torri bviltb._ , n, and has. been a very t-uccessful cruizer; car 'tured by his ship i 1 arcissgs, Cqt. ism( ; Capt. DURELL, of the Spanish Patriot, 1 113 C was re-captured and sent in here yesterday arrived iv the-privateer ; the Norway sloop .Comitterie 11'0 1 Dvontheim„Jaien.wi:h lish,&c.hound io•BourdeatVc , captured by his ..MajesTy'i ship Oineixt/4 the Savir AM, PARKER, from Glonceiter. . Sailed the Alatilda 2 AILLEN, forth River. DovEn,.. FEB. g. , ,—,Last eveping the Bengal Eaf t ‘ Indiaman, of lieugal (deceived 1)1 tire apyeararicet' the West Indiaman which ran. ashore t:ie evenill preceding, stipposi:z ,lier - to• he al anchor), ragi a(T t? round• ou the rucks under the South F ore l a nd), tiler have been obliged to cut amasts,ay her masts, and it is fully expected 111 A, together with phe . Ccesar, it will shortly become a wreck : latter •ha. 4 Poarsmounr,,Fsp. 8.- . —Came in last evening hi°, Majesl's ship Aautilus, from Portugal: wive( ) also ins•Alajqsty's shlpt Linnet and Oanymede, froni a cruize. aken poin Exp Th e Tito, You at Si r j H; that it IF th en I sh u ttrez.,o 'NvOti] ' ObvL Pow, have ti ons that -•\v_as at w tlese, You lilini by t 4i c I) tent troo Cleni that addi teen crt 4c 4 apd • 11 Ph s , ' ISldt ACiw Cori ( utlc -Pret ,alll Boas ' are , ke( Vitt ,rec Sttki SPef Z. es Bet cht - to ar i2 th( re k of be Cif li a • de let Et ,